ASUS Announces ZenBook S13 (UX392)

2019/01/07

KEY POINTS

  • World’s slimmest display bezel and 97% screen-to-body ratio: Compact 13.9-inch laptop features the frameless 4-sided NanoEdge display
  • World’s thinnest laptop with discrete graphics: GeForce MX150 GPU, 8th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU and 1TB PCIe SSD in a 12.9mm-thin CNC-milled chassis
  • Power and beauty: CNC-milled unibody construction and military-grade MIL-STD-810G-tested for durability; features a unique Utopia Blue finish
  • Convenient connectivity: No-compromise I/O with USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A port, two USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C ports and a MicroSD card reader

Las Vegas, CES (January 6, 2019) - ASUS today announced ZenBook S13 (UX392). A true combination of beauty and power, this ultraportable delivers performance and portability into an impossibly small chassis. Its 13.9-inch FHD frameless four-sided NanoEdge display is the most impressive to date, featuring the world's slimmest bezels and 97% screen-to-body ratio¹, the largest of the industry. With NVIDIA® GeForce® MX150 discrete graphics, and the latest 8th Gen Intel® Core™ quad-core processor, ZenBook S13 pushes the boundaries of what’s possible inside a 13-inch chassis. There’s ample space with 1TB of PCIe® x4 SSD storage, and the 50Wh battery provides up to 15 hours of battery life². ZenBook S13 will be available in the coming months with pricing and regional configurations to be announced at launch.

The world’s slimmest display bezel and 97% screen-to-body ratio

ZenBook S13 takes narrow bezels to the extreme with a 13.9-inch FHD display, surrounded by the impressive four-sided ASUS NanoEdge bezels that deliver the industry’s biggest screen-to-body ratio at 97%. A 2.5mm border frame the sides of the display. The thickest upper bezel accommodates the HD webcam, and also serves as a tab for lifting the laptop’s lid. Finding the tab on the lid is easier this way, allowing the user to pull the lid up in one smooth motion rather than searching for a barely-there indent on the front edge. It’s a small change that makes all the difference for day-to-day use, and was worth the effort of changing the shape of the glass on the display and altering the design of the laptop’s lid. Despite the larger display, ZenBook S13 manages to retain a smaller physical footprint (316 x 195 x 12.9mm) compared to most 13-inch laptops.

The world’s thinnest laptop with discrete graphics³

Intel’s 8th Generation of mobile processors have been a staple for the ZenBook series for over a year, and ZenBook S13 takes this step further with up to the latest 8th generation Core i7 CPU paired with up to 16GB of RAM. Both the Core i5 and Core i7 configurations benefit from four cores and eight threads for smooth performance, allowing for complex workloads, like video encoding, or aggressive multitasking, like processing photos while switching between productivity apps, emails and web browsing.

Processing performance is paired with upgraded graphics capabilities made possible by the NVIDIA GeForce MX150. To get the most out of the CPU and GPU, ample storage is required.